Confederate flag. I strongly urge every member to stand with the citizens of all races and to remove this symbol of hatred from our National Park service. And with that i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Calvert i continue to reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. Ms. Mccollum mr. Chair i have the right to close. So i reserve my time until i close. The chair the gentlelady reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. The gentleman from california wish to reserve . Mr. Calvert i urge adoption of the amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. Ms. Mccollum i want to restate on june 25 what the National Park Service Director when he requested that Confederate Flag sales be removed from the National Park book stores
Southern lawmakers in particular in a tough spot on the record on if they supported the flag by graves. The story quoting republican representative jody hice of georges saying this morning he plans to support the amendment. The amendment that is coming to the floor simply codifies existing law that has been in place for five years that allows the states to recognize historical significance on dates of their choosing while at the same time recognizing sensitivities that many have with the flag. While some republicans spoke about the Confederate Flag issue it was mostly the house to make rest that spoke on the floor. In a news briefing about it. Here is that briefing. Nancy pelosi good afternoon. Today we had action on the floor. I presented a privilege resolution that would have captured the action put forth two weeks ago. It was referred to the committee on House Administration never to be heard from again. That is intolerable. I put forth mr. Thompsons similar resolution and that was
Rules. That is when i explain it in a goes through rep. Brooks you have no judgment a you cannot explain it to the committee . Admin mccarthy there is no specific definition i can offer you. A judgment that will be well documented by the science. Rep. Brooks how long has the epa been working on that . Admin mccarthy since we created the Clean Air Act. Rep. Brooks what year . Admin mccarthy 1990 . Rep. Brooks decades later you still do not have the definition. Admin mccarthy it is not apply to that away. Chairman smith thank you. The gentleman from virginia. Rep. Beyer thank you for being so patient and gracious this morning despite rather combative nature of the questioning. Our chair, my good friend and distinguished chair claims the epa has severely damage our economy. How do you reconcile that with 64 straight months of job growth and 12. 8 million private sector jobs and tripling of the stock market. If there is not perhaps better to look at the infrastructure bills we failed to pa
Security officials. We are getting your reaction to that story and hearing what you think it means for the frontrunner for the democratic president ial nomination. 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can catch up with us on social media. Twitter is cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. A good thursday morning to you. This story about the state Department Inspector general report took the front page. Spot in most major newspapers. In the usa today, clinton broke security rules is the headline for the front page of the new faults on, clinton email server. Clinton violates policies on email is the front page of the Washington Post. State Department Watchdog rebukes clinton over email. It was first reported by politico yesterday. Their headline, clinton violated email rules. One of the reporters is rachel bade. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host what did Hillary Clinton do . How critical was the Inspector General of the secretary herself in this report . Caller
Have heard former callers talking about education in a way that breaks my heart. The world is laughing at us and if we want to remain a great nation, we have to to invest in our childrens education, because they are not keeping up with the children in china and india and the rest of the industrialized world. We have one Political Party in this nation that wants to cannibalize on our Education System to balance budgets. It has to stop. Our children are feeling the effects of their inability to raise taxes, to raise revenue. It is a serious situation and i am tired of my daughters future being pawned off because a republican does not have the spine to tax american money where it lies. Guest one of the important points he makes is we live in a Global Economy and one of our main competitive advantages in the Global Economics is a welleducated workforce. If we dont have a welleducated workforce, we lose the advantage because we will not be able to compete by saying bring your jobs to americ